Our gut is constantly exposed to a wide variety of foods, and the gut microbiome helps the immune system learn what's harmful ...

New research zeroes in on a unique group of immune cells that could transform how we treat—and possibly prevent—severe food ...

The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless stimuli, or allergies can result. Immune cells are known to ignore or "tolerate" molecules found on ...

More information: Neutrophil trapping and nexocytosis, mast cell-mediated processes for inflammatory signal relay., Cell ...

But for approximately 30 million Americans with food allergies—including 4 million children—immune cells mistakenly identify food as a threat, triggering potentially life-threatening reactions. Now, ...

This partitioning permits different kinds of biochemical reactions to take place in different organelles. Although each organelle performs a specific function in the cell, all of the cell's ...

catalysts seek out the appropriate information from this archive and use it to build new proteins — proteins that make up the structures of the cell, run the biochemical reactions in the cell ...